Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1945 — Page 10

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E 10 Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1945 RE

Editor (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

Give Light and the People Will Pind Ther Own Woy

THE PEACE PARLEY PLAN

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the smaller allies. Nevertheless,

nations.

not have proposed it.

‘until the whole is known.

and unwise,

greater—and they will be stunted for generations.

by settlements to which they are not a full party.

‘they will live up to the treaty as a whole. : Otherwise, these smaller European states may

Hitler

the United Nations.

given a fair hearing, that will help. The same applies to the 21-nation

probably can be reduced to a minimum. . At

it. can have a powerful—perhaps decisive—influence.

take them seriously.

A TEST OF PROGRE drab shrinkage following world war L ; :

the 200-pound colonel,

finally stopped withering it was a tight fit for a doll.

some an ulster needed a lot more wearing. -

“became a hand-me-down for the kid brother. In creating vexations, world war II yields to no war.

without shrinking, Dad will believe that the world really has grown better in the last 25 years. 3 TBE

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| John Citizeri, incivvies, at home with his Nell,

‘Big Three agreement to hold an allied advisory peace conference is a compromise. It is far from the democratic procedure demanded by the United States and

it also represents a concession on the part of Russia, which always has opposed giving any voice in the European peace settlements to the middle and small

Whether the compromise is on the good side or the bad will largely depend, of course, on how it is applied. Certainly it is useful if it breaks the Big Three deadlock, which has paralyzed virtually all international decisions since the abortive London conference of foreign ministers last autumn. Moreover, it cannot be all bad from the American point of view or Secretary of State Byrnes would

Why Russia rejected it at the London conference and now accepts it, is not clear. Probably there are other parts of the deal still secret. Public judgment should be reserved

. . n MEANWHILE, the worst feature of thé plan is that the long delayed European peace conference is to be neither ‘a full meeting nor one with authority. There ‘is some excuse for limiting it to 21 rather than including 50-0dd United ‘Nations, because many of the latter contributed little or nothing to victory. But to limit the 21 active a belligerents in turn to mere recommendations is both unjust

Unjust because many of them, particularly Germany's neighbors, were the first war victims and suffered most. Though their war effort was not equal to that of the big allies in an absolute sense, their sacrifices relatively were

To exchide them from the final decisions regarding treaties is unwise, because they cannot be securely bound | =

Every peace treaty involves many conflicting national | BF interests, and separate states feel wronged on one point or another. So the more complete participation of the separate | 4 states in the necessary compromises, the more likelihood | f be pushovers later for native Chauvinists, and for some future : the old divide-and-conquer technique agamnst

. ss 8 =» > ss =» BUT THE Byrnes compromise accepted by the Big Three can overcomé much of thig danger, if Russia permits. If the big powers act generously on the compromise provision for calling into the early negotiations the smaller states concerned in a given ‘treaty, and if the latter are

peace conference, which is to meet by May 1. If its major “recommendations” are accepted by big powers in inaking the final decisions, the injustice and unwisdom of ‘the dictatorial procedure | sithough the national government was refused perleast, even that limited peace conference will provide a world forum. If informed public opinion functions,

At the San Francisco conference world opinion forced the acceptance of a more democratic international charter than the big powers had drafted at Dumbarton Oaks and |. °" at Yalta, Public opinion likewise can improve the peace conference “recommendations,” and make the big powers

JHEN the demobilized G. I. announces that he is having some of his military garments dyed for civilian wear, | screamed aggression, Dad grins. Dad recalls the winter of 1918-19, and the olive

Throughout the war OD had furnished chains of sur-’ prises in the mere process of laundering. Like the shirt of The laundry sent it back small enough for the 150-pound corporal. After the corporal Jug washed it, he sent it home to his small son. ‘When the shirt

Dyes wrought similar wonders after Nov. 11, 1918, when swarms of brand new second lieutenants were discharged in recently bought $55 overcoats. Fifty-five bucks! The average shavetail easily convinced himself that so hand- © __Sooff to the dyer went countless coats, returning ap- | propriately blue or black and equipped with civilian buttons. Alas, the sleeves reached nigh the elbows, the skirts

‘scorned the knees, and a fellow’s shoulders were so cramped that he couldn't tip his hat to his date. The wizened relic |

But a new test is at hand. - If today’s service coat can dye

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Christmas ‘45 3

By Robert C. Ruark

“F an ear, : Our allies had hung up their stockings with care, : In the hope that our treasury soon would be there.

Four billion to this one—six billion to that. The whole world is bankrupt, starved and broke flat. The people who spend it give scarcely a damn, 3 For the permanent Santa Claus is our Uncle Sam.

Had cocked up his feet for a short breathing spell. When out in the nation, arose such a roar, That it rattled the hinges right off the door. The racket, sufficient to drive a guy barmy, Came from capital, labor, the navy and army. And to fill in the lull of a short in 3 There was always the topic of nuclear fission. On all hands were drivers, both lively and quick, Each passionately eager to in To the top of the North Pole, the top of the South, Everybody who had once shot off his big mouth, “Now Truman, Now. Stalin, Now Big C. DeGaulle! “Molotov, Chiang ‘and Jim Forrestal! “On Reuther, on Wilson, be brutal and burly! “Scream Patterson, Bilbo and Patrick J. Hurley!” As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly, They took tooth for tooth and asked eye for eye! Up to the capitol we must all go, With ‘fists full of brickbats for all hands to throw, It seems that Pearl Harbor was something we saps Dreamed up by ourselves—to annoy the Japs. We finished the war—or thought we had done it, But now it appears that we may not have won it, The world's owed a big bill, and UNO will foot it, But the big “if” in UNO is “where shall we put it?” The navy is certain that army plans reek, But since Harry indorsed it the sailors can’t speak. Into the midst of this tumultuous scene, Blithely bestriding an infernal machine, Charged a once well-known figure, to give the world pause > ~But no mother would recognize him as 8. Claus. His eyes sad and sunken, his dimples had fled, His cheeks were like ashes, his feet were like lead. ; His tunic was red-still the color of jelly, ‘But it barely concealed his be-wrinkled belly. He spake not a word, but straightway to work, He filled all the stockings with presents—the jerk! He gave turmoil in China, and killing in Java, He threatened the world with a stream of hot lave. Trouble in Palestine, where Christmas began, * the Russians make passes at parts of Iran. . No nylons, no radios, .no clothes and no cars, No house, no sugar, no booze for the bars, But plenty of hunger, illness, disgust, And big bulging bags full of fear and distrust. Small wonder that as, up the chimney he rose, He waggled his fingers from the end of his nose. as

BO was head (0 Sadia. he drove out of sight, “No matter what , serves you doggone well right!” ;

WORLD AFFAIRS—

) Chinese ‘Reds

By Parker La Moore

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—When

in China. Probably that could not have anywhere but in China, where wars are taken in stride. But it emphasizes anew that there has been more shouting than shooting in the so-called Chinese civil war, Gen, Chou has been In Chungking representing the Communists in their recurrent peace negotiations

cause theif newspaper was , But there was no other apparent interference with their activities,

mission 49 Puliish & pWspaper in Ned China, More Talk Than Shooting

resentative Chinese elements, with provision for Communist representation, Until recently it apparty that the Comm would accept their seats on :

“l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to, say it.”

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